So if your partner can't ride due to injury....

[bouncybouncy]

It kinda depends for us...short healing time we usually skip out for the other, find other things to do in the home. Longer healing times we go on and ride, but maybe not as often.

Last year when my hubby was out with a broken ankle we went to the YMCA together almost every night...he did upper body and I did both...he would "coach" me on the leg machines. I did a little swimming too. It was fun and a great way to spend time together! I still went on long rides with my friends so I could keep in cycling shape for upcoming races.

This year 2 of our couple friends got knocked-up so the guys are calling hubby for rides (guy rides per say) I am feeling a little left behind and not due to an injury... But we are in the very very beginning of our season and have not worked out the training regimen yet...I am sure now that the days are longer we will get out act together.

[Brandi]

I find this interesting truely! Here all this time I thought we were strange. But I think it is more a kindness to the other. Knowing the other is wanting to be better so they too can go out and play makes you stop and say "I can find something else to do". I just feel like I am rubbing it in his face that I feel great and healthy and he doesn't. SO I go garden or do walks and stuff. That way i don't get grumbles and what not's.

[Aggie_Ama]

I think mine comes down to not enjoying riding alone. If he doesn't want to/can't come I usually stay home. I do not have riding buddies save for a couple gals I will call mountain rides with but no roadies. I am content to run and so far we have not addressed a long term illness. When he was off the bike with his first Crohn's flare up I was so exhausted and frightened I didn't even think of riding this was probably 1-2 months of no riding. This current injury? I am training for a half marathon and the thing should be cleared up in a few weeks when my run is over.

I think he is sensitive to if I am ill he doesn't want me home for 4-6 hours so he will shorten his ride. If your own spouse doesn't that doesn't mean they are inconsiderate, just DH doesn't like to leave me home. Unless he knows I am really sick and will sleep for a long time, then I prefer he stays gone. LOL. We also spend a lot of time together which may explain some differences. If we are running in opposite directions too long it wears on him, he isn't clingy per se but he doesn't like to be apart extended times either. Oddly we did long distance for two years!

[7rider]

DH and I often ride together, but separate. That is, many of our weekend rides are group rides, so we each find our own sub-group and ride there. So, when he was hurt and had his knee surgery, I still did my rides. I even the occasional solo ride - on routes that we might have otherwise done just the two of us. Twice now, such solo rides has allowed me to meet people on the roads who turned out to be neighbors! Strange to meet someone who lives around the corner for the first time when out on a bike, miles from home. But then, I think I'm much more willing to chat on rides than DH - who tends to be a head-down-and-hammer kind of rider. He barely talks to ME when we ride together. I would fully expect him to do his rides if/when I'm laid out.

[Ninabike]

Hey Brandi, Sorry about yout DH. We kind of don't ride when the other is injured, except a few years ago, my DH broke his pelvis and I did ride a little because it was a long term recovery. Hope he feels better soon and you're both back on your bikes.

[TrekTheKaty]

We've both become very addicted. As a result, in case of work or illness--"too bad for you. I'll stop at Walgreens on the way back!" The other day, I got a late start on my ride after he'd ridden with the boys--I phoned home and told him to make his own dinner!

[Brandi]

[QUOTE=cunninghamair;410758]We've both become very addicted. As a result, in case of work or illness--"too bad for you. I'll stop at Walgreens on the way back!" The other day, I got a late start on my ride after he'd ridden with the boys--I phoned home and told him to make his own dinner![/QUOTEOh i want to be more like you! But if I tell hubby to make his own dinner it would be chips and salsa evry time. hey at least it's veggie. lol!

[Brandi]

Hey Brandi, Sorry about yout DH. We kind of don't ride when the other is injured, except a few years ago, my DH broke his pelvis and I did ride a little because it was a long term recovery. Hope he feels better soon and you're both back on your bikes.

Hi Nina how are you/ How are your kitty cats? hey we will be back at the fair again this year. Maybe we will see you again.
we both got on our bikes yesterday. Thank God. But hubby more then likely has a torn acl. Lucky for him he can bike at this time. Unless he has sugery. But he will wait to have sugery after our work season is over I am sure. Thanks for your concern. Hope all is well!